How We Express Ourselves Over the coming weeks students will be looking into How We

Express Ourselves. This unit is an inquiry into how cultures use the

arts to express identity. During this unit, students will inquire into

cultures from around the world, art forms and aspects of identity.

Central Idea In all cultures, the arts are used to express identity.

Key Concepts Function– how the arts are used to convey/ express cultural identity

Connection—how our connection to art reflects cultural identity

Perspective—individual, group and cultural perspectives represented by art

Lines of Inquiry Identity conveyed through the arts

Cultural identity and its connection to the arts (we have a connection to different music, literature and art because it reflects who we are (expresses our identity))

How culture can influence the creation of art

Transdisciplinary

Skills

Research : observing through use of senses, recording data through learning and creating about different forms of expression

Thinking: synthesis through combining different specialist lesson parts to make a whole (summative assessment)

Communication: listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing

Self-management: control of gross and fine-motor skills through Music (instrument playing) and Art

Social: respecting others and different types of expression

Learner Profile Communicators—expressing ideas in a variety of ways

Open-minded– appreciating other perspectives

Risk-takers—through experimenting with different art forms

Please find below outlines of how Language Arts and Mathematics

are integrated with our unit which, will be taught in conjunction with

our on going mathematics and literacy programs.

Language Arts

Mr. Craig (music), Ms.Warunee (Thai Studies) and Ms. Dana (Art) will be involving

children in many exploratory activities in this unit. Mr. Jago will be using ICT to sup-

port our inquiries into the world’s different types of art forms.

Please visit Ms. Eva’s Year 2 EAL Blog for regularly updated vocabulary information

regarding this unit. http://blogs.nist.ac.th/eal/category/year-2/

Mathematics

Transdisciplinary Speaking and Listening: Oral story telling and listening. Retelling

stories and story meanings.

Students will: Begin to retell, relate and sequence events and sto-

ries with increasing detail. Be increasingly aware of tone and voice

level.

Writing – Retelling, identifying beginning, middle and end. Write

simple, sequenced stories.

Transdisciplinary Patterns – The use of patterning in different cultures, tessel-

lating patterns and symmetrical patterns.

Represent patterns in a variety of ways, for example, using

words, drawings, symbols, materials, actions, numbers

Inquire into number patterns – for example odd and even

Extend and create patterns in numbers

Use number patterns to represent and understand real-life

situations

Use the properties and relationships of addition and sub-

traction to solve problems.